11/25 - TRIPLE FEATURE ---------------------- 7:00 - You Kent Always Say What You Want (JABF15) Kent Brockman is fired after Channel 6 is fined by the FCC after he swears on the air, thanks to Homer knocking a cup of hot coffee into his lap * The 7:00 episode will be joined in progress, if not pre-empted, in cities where Fox is airing an NFL game that starts at 4:05 Eastern
7:30 - He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs (JABF20) As a reward for saving Mr. Burns from a mall fountain, Homer is flown to Chicago on Mr. Burns's private jet, and Homer likes it so much that he wants a job where flying on private jets is all he does
8:00 - Funeral for a Fiend (KABF01) Sideshow Bob tries to kill the Simpsons by running ads for a new family-style ribs restaurant and then lying in wait, but it's Bart who ends up delivering a fatal blow...supposedly; "Frasier" castmates Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde-Pierce, and John Mahoney voice Sideshow Bob, his brother Cecil, and their father
12/2 ** SPECIAL TIME: 8:30 ** Homer of Seville (JABF18) Mr. Burns discovers that Homer has an excellent operatic singing voice when he is lying on his back, and soon Homer is the talk - er, aria - of the town, complete with a groupie that doesn't take his rejection of her advances too kindly * Fox will air the BCS Football Selection Show at 8:00 Eastern (I assume it will air 8:00 Pacific/7:00 Mountain as well)
12/9 - Midnight Towboy (JABF21) * Even though this is not a Fox NFL doubleheader day, Fox is scheduled to air "King of the Hill" at 7:00 and 7:30 Homer gets his car towed in a nearby town while buying milk, and gets talked into becoming Springfield's new tow truck driver - which he does a little too well as far as his friends are concerned
IT'S OFFICIAL - I'M A SIMPSONS GEEK: I got through the Simpsons video game. Turns out they stole the ending from the second Professor Moriarty episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
STUFF for "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17) ---------------------------------------- Written by Matt Selman Directed by Nancy Kruse Blackboard: THE PILGRIMS WERE NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS Couch: The couch, and everybody on it, is inside a pop-up book Special Guest Voice: Jack Black, Dan Clowes, Maurice LaMarche, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Sang Am Lee, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG-DSV
REFERENCES "What's New, Pussycat?" (the song in Korean) Tintin (one of the comics Lisa references) Asterix (one of the comics Lisa references) X-Men / Wolverine (the comic with the "pop-up" claws) The Incredible Hulk (The Formidable Mulk) The Thing [from The Fantastic 4] (The Thung) "Maus" (Art Spiegelman references it; also, somebody was holding a copy) Archie comics (Jughead hats in the store) "Batman" [TV series] ("POW!" on the screen) Wonder Woman (Marge compares herself to her) "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Homer and Marge enter Notre Dame de Springfield chased by townspeople who think Homer's a monster)
YET ANOTHER REFERENCE TO RUPERT MURDOCH OWNING THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Marge's picture is on the front page of "Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal"
DYNs ...Lisa comments that Asterix and Tintin are seen "only in French high school classes", yet they both have English translations (in fact, Tintin is very popular in England)? ...there's no mention of what happens to The Android's Dungeon, Krusty Burger, or Marge's two gyms? (Wait, don't tell me, let me guess; the same thing that happened to Marge's and Moe's pub)
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The "Grand Opening" sign and banner weren't there when the kids saw the store through the window, but suddenly appeared when they crossed the street.
Art Spiegelman wears a mouse face mask at one point; in his graphic novel "Maus" (a story about the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews in which the Jews are depicted as mice and the Germans as cats), some pictures of present-day Spiegelman have him wearing a similar mask.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 What do you MEAN, "Simpsons Geekdom revoked as the Wii version of the game doesn't have everything the XBox 360 and PS3 versions do"?